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UBUNTU-CVE-2023-38197 (CVE-2023-38197)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2023-07-13 02:15 – Updated: 2026-10-17 09:18 – Source website

Details

An issue was discovered in Qt before 5.15.15, 6.x before 6.2.10, and 6.3.x through 6.5.x before 6.5.3. There are infinite loops in recursive entity expansion.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-38197	REPORT
	https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/488960	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38197	REPORT

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  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2023-38197",
  "modified": "2026-10-17T09:18:07Z",
  "published": "2023-07-13T02:15:00Z",
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CVE-2023-38197 (GCVE-0-2023-38197)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-13 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-02 17:30

Summary

An issue was discovered in Qt before 5.15.15, 6.x before 6.2.10, and 6.3.x through 6.5.x before 6.5.3. There are infinite loops in recursive entity expansion.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-07-18 16:48 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2361 records in the last 180 days details

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/488960
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…	mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024…	mailing-list

Impacted products

5 products

Vendor	Product	Version
qt	qt	Affected: 0 , < 5.15.5 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:qt:qt::::::::
qt	qt	Affected: 6.3.0 , < 6.5.3 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:qt:qt:6.3.0:-::::::
fedoraproject	fedora	Affected: 38 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:::::::*
fedoraproject	fedora	Affected: 37 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:::::::*
qt	qt	Affected: 6.0.0 , < 6.2.10 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:qt:qt:6.0.0:::::::*

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